Wildkind Outdoors is a holistic survival and rewilding school dedicated to building real-world resilience through self-reliance training, holistic health practices, and Earth-based skills rooted in the power of community and guided by ancestral wisdom.
Wildkind Outdoors offers:
- A Membership Platform: The Community Resilience Collective (launching April 2026)
- Online Courses
- Retreats
- Holistic Survival Camps
- Corporate and Private Events for Wilderness Survival and Leadership Training.
Founder Jess Caldwell is a community organizer, resilience and preparedness facilitator, and Earth-based skills educator.
Through her unique work she teaches wilderness survival, rewilding & leadership, nature awareness and daily aliveness practices to become the Changemakers of our time.
Jess facilitates the Community Resilience Collective (A membership model) and welcomes guest instructors to share their wisdom. She is currently filming online courses for self-led study and curates immersive retreats and nature-immersion camps to bring people together around the campfire.
The Way of the Wildkind is a living path ~ energizing a growing community of changemakers who honor ancestral wisdom and carry forward the vital traditions that will guide us into a more sustainable future.
Wildkind Outdoors welcomes the rising leaders of our time ~ those who carry the fire and the passion to gather, organize, and lead with compassion and kindness.
Jess Caldwell is the founder and lead instructor of Wildkind Outdoors. She is a passionate educator to humans of all ages and believes holistic survival training is a more integrated approach to adapting to our rapidly changing world.
With her unique background, she has developed hard skills that include wilderness survival, ethnobotony, and backcountry medical training as a Wilderness First Responder. She balances this work with the soft skills she integrates through her years of study that include holistic health, mindfulness training, yoga, meditation and breathwork.
Jess is an advocate for living with ALIVENESS as a vital compass for fearlessly navigating these unprecedented times.
The Problem Wildkind Outdoors is Solving
In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven society, many individuals suffer from nature deficiency and an over-reliance on convenience to meet their basic needs. Urban city centers, the indoor lifestyle and the addiction of digital consumption has become a modern epidemic in the western world. This recent paradigm shift has created a generation of humans who are experiencing a failure to thrive.
Modern lifestyle design supports sedentary habits and convenience-driven behaviors that replace deep human connection and holistic health with a single personal numbing device. As a result, depression, stress, anxiety, and feelings of overwhelm are at an all-time high. Few challenges exist that build true resilience of the mind, body and Spirit. Within the last 100 years, we have lost essential survival skills and longevity traditions collected and passed down from generations of ancestral wisdom. This sudden lifestyle shift leaves individuals unprepared for a rapidly changing world and we are experiencing unprecedented vulnerability.
We are living in complacency, disconnected from the rhythms of nature and the healthy reciprocity between humans and resources. We don't know where our food and water comes from. We have replaced wild places for temperature controlled isolation. We have lost basic human skills that foster resilience and self-reliance.
Wildkind Outdoors exists to bridge this gap by offering community-focused connection through our membership portal as well as self-paced online courses to enhance learning. We bring people together to learn, feel, connect and grow through our retreats and holistic survival camps.
Humans crave meaning, purpose and connection. We teach the vital human skills needed to rewild our culture. As a women owned and operated company, we offer a warm and inclusive learning environment for the transformational rise of leadership.
Welcome to Wildkind Outdoors: Stay Wild. Stay Kind.
"To Rewild your life is to embrace the natural rhythms of life and unplug from the modern lifestyle of disconnect and convenient consumption. Embrace connection to self, the land and community. Now is the time to renew the health and vitality of all things wild and free".
